Jonah 4:3 KJV — MannaFest

Jonah 4:3

Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

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ASV

Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

WEB

And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

YLT

And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better is my death than my life.'

DBT

And now, Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.

About this book

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Jonah — A reluctant prophet fleeing from Nineveh, a storm, a great fish, a repentant city, and a bush. The only prophet whose book is entirely narrative — and whose complaint against God's mercy is the book's real subject.

Author: The book is anonymous; Jonah son of Amittai is the subject (1:1; cf. 2 Kings 14:25)
Date: Jonah's historical ministry c. 8th c. BC under Jeroboam II; book's composition disputed

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1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.
Numbers 11:15
And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
Jeremiah 20:14–18
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
Jonah 4:8
And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

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Being in discontent, he applied to the duty of prayer, as he used to do in his troubles, but his corruptions got head of his graces, and, when he should have been praying for benefit by the mercy of God himself, he was complaining of the benefit others had by that mercy.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Such a word as this may be the language of grace, as it was in Paul, who desired to depart and be with Christ, which is far better; but here it was the language of folly, and passion, and strong corruption; and so much the worse, [1.] Jonah being now in the midst of his usefulness, and therefore fit to live.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Jonah's impatience of life under disappointed hopes of Israel's reformation through the destruction of Nineveh, is like that of Elijah at his plan for reforming Israel (1Ki 18:1-46) failing through Jezebel (1Ki 19:4).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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